The travesty of American business

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The travesty to which I refer is the way American businesses treat U.S. workers and the movement of jobs either outside the US or bringing foreigners into the US to replace American workers.

IBM - which should change it's name to India Business Machines for the amount of work it has shifted to India by laying off thousands of American workers.  The job layoffs mentioned in that article are only the latest. 

Dell did a similar thing after purchasing Perot Systems.  They took a company that was predominantly American and launched a process of "leveraging" which was a fancy way of saying moving work off shore to India, the Phillipines, and other parts of the world.

Carrier heating is moving jobs from Indiana to Mexico it was announced earlier this year.

Then there is Disney, who laid off IT workers so they could outsource the jobs to another company.  Those jobs went to people from India imported to the US under H1-B visas.  This was a gross distortion of the H1-B program.  Then, in a very inhumane and insensitive move, Disney made the fired workers train their replacements. 


These are companies that place a dollar above America.  They are companies that are too lazy to train or retrain or properly manage their US employees.  Instead they seek profits the easy way by laying off American workers for either sending work work outside the US or bringing outside workers to the US.  This is done regardless of the impact on productivity, efficiency, quality or customer satisfaction.

It's not good for the country and it is stupid business practices.  These companies create a bad name for businesses and that criticism and bad name is justified.

Congress needs to greatly curtail the H1-B visa program.  If smart people want to move to the US and become citizens, that's great.  Let's bring the brains of other countries here.  But I do not approve of a program that imports people to do work without any expectation that they become citizens loyal to the US.  they take our jobs, take our money and when they leave our country we are worse off for it.

The businesses named above are taking a short sited approach that is going to leave the US a land of investors with money and the rest of the people working retail and fast food.


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